Are you getting ready for the upcoming RSA Conference, the
world's leading information security conference and
exposition? The
event kicks off next week in San
Francisco. Ahead of the show, VMblog spoke with Karl Van Den Bergh, Chief Marketing Officer of Gigamon, the company providing network visibility and analytics on all information-in-motion across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
VMblog: Can you provide VMblog readers with a
quick overview of Gigamon?
Karl Van Den Bergh: Gigamon is the first company to
deliver unified network visibility and analytics on all information-in-motion
from raw packets to apps and across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Gigamon aggregates, transforms and analyzes network traffic to solve critical
performance and security needs, including rapid threat detection and response,
freeing organizations to drive digital innovation. In short, Gigamon enables
organizations to run fast, stay secure and innovate.
VMblog: With
RSA coming up this month, what is your message to RSA attendees and those
individuals who won't be able to make the conference this year?
Van Den Bergh: At this year's RSA, we are really focusing on removing blind spots with complete
network traffic visibility to provide a more resilient and secure network. Data
moves faster than ever before, while simultaneously networks are becoming more
complex. It is essential now more than ever to have access to solutions that
will reduce risk, complexity and costs, while also providing total visibility
and analytics.
VMblog: What
market needs or problems is Gigamon addressing in the security space?
Van Den Bergh: As global
enterprises continue the journey of Digital Transformation (DX), networks
continue to grow more complex, and face the expectation of both faster
transmission speeds and a broadened threat landscape. Pervasive network
visibility and analytics are integral parts of an organization's ability to run
fast, stay secure and remain on the cusp of innovation throughout DX
initiatives.
Gigamon's
Visibility and Analytics Fabric helps to deliver a unified visibility
architecture across physical, virtual and cloud environments. It goes beyond
any network packet broker to deliver a smarter, more proactive approach to
network management, monitoring and security.
In the
event of threat activity, Gigamon Cloud-native NDR allows organizations to get ahead of investigating
suspicious behavior by proactively hunting for potential risks, and directing a
fast and effective response to active threats. ThreatINSIGHT quickly triages
alerts and gathers intelligence to direct efficient response activities, while
obtaining a broad situational awareness across physical, virtual, and cloud
networks.
VMblog: What
are the biggest challenges you have seen with organizations looking to
accelerate their digital transformation (DX) efforts?
Van Den Bergh: The most fundamental piece of DX is the introduction of
new applications that power the transformation. Typically, they leverage
microservice architectures, are deployed across hybrid infrastructure and are
consumed on countless mobile devices. These applications increase the
complexity of the infrastructure, and organizations often struggle to properly
secure these applications and ensure they run with consistent performance.
VMblog: What
are some top priorities for security leaders at RSA to consider in a world
of digital transformation?
Van Den Bergh: Security leaders need to have an in-depth understanding
and a clear view of new digital applications that power DX. Having a clear view
and the right kind of data will help them to understand the interactions of the
applications, as well as their performance and security characteristics. This
visibility needs to span on-premises, private, public and multi-cloud
environments in order to obtain a good handle on security. Additionally, the
ability to isolate specific application or microservice communication streams for
deeper inspection allows SecOps teams to easily understand access patterns and
put into place effective micro-segment strategies.
VMblog: When
it comes to achieving digital transformation, what sets Gigamon apart from
its competitors?
Van Den Bergh: Gigamon recently introduced Application
Intelligence, which empowers IT teams and analytical tools with
unparalleled application visibility and control. When it comes to DX, Gigamon
Application Intelligence gives teams the application visibility needed to
monitor and secure modern digital applications. It isolates and extracts
application and component traffic across multiple tiers for monitoring,
provides application metadata to analytics tools and sends only relevant
traffic to the appropriate tools to reduce load and increase effectiveness.
VMblog: Is
there anything else VMblog readers should know about Gigamon?
Van Den Bergh: Gigamon had an unbelievable 2019, delivering record
revenue growth, with the strongest fourth quarter in the company's history.
With new product growth, continued growth in Federal business, and the growth
of our channel-initiated pipeline last year, we entered 2020 with strong
momentum and we are planning to continue this growth throughout the course of
the year. Network visibility and analytics is mission-critical to any
organization engaging in a DX initiative. Without network visibility and
analytics, IT teams cannot see through the complexity of hybrid infrastructure
to effectively manage security and performance, preventing the organization
from being able to innovate. Gigamon is the established market leader in
network visibility and analytics with twice the market share of the next
closest rival. Thanks to its Network Visibility and Analytics Fabric, Gigamon
is helping IT teams in thousands of organizations, including 83 of the Fortune
100, to keep their infrastructure running fast and staying secure so their
organizations can go innovate. Learn
more at www.gigamon.com.
If you can't make it out and visit us at RSA, visit Gigamon to learn more about all the
security solutions we offer.
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